“Just imagine that inside your heart there is a place where only one person can ever enter other than God. It’s a combination between a mini-kingdom where you store up your finest treasures, and a dazzling meadow where your sweetest flowers bloom. In this mini-kingdom you store up the most extravagant love, and in this dazzling meadow you nurture your most tender affections. The longer this faithful sanctuary is guarded, cultivated, and beautified, the more enchanting it will become.”

“This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.
Love is not possessive.
Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.
Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.
Love is not touchy.
Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.
Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen.”

“I once heard a Christlike guy capture well what a real man is looking for in a woman when he declared, “I don’t want a woman who just turns my head, but a woman who turns my heart.”

“Loneliness is a required course for leadership…If God is preparing you to make an impact on this world for His kingdom, chances are He will take you through a season of solitude. This is a season when you learn that you can’t lean upon anyone but Him for your confidence and when you gain the strength to stand alone even when no one else stands with you.”

Start the year not with firecrackers and fireworks but with PRAYER and FAITH that works.

We’re marching on with hearts courageous. We’ll follow where you want us to. And should you lead us where the battle rages, let us march with hearts courageous, after You.

End 2012 with a prayer and begin 2013 still with a PRAYER.

For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6

“Whenever you feel unloved, unimportant or insecure„ remember to whom you belong.”